Assembly Bill 628 was introduced just this past Friday, February 24 by Representatives Bies and Stieneke. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Education. This very short bill creates a $200 fine for each time a school employee fails to report an incident of bullying, as long as the local school board has a policy requiring bullying to be reported.

This bill does nothing but flex the state's muscles. The state needs to back out of its habit of meddling in our schools, rather than encroaching even more. Education is the responsibility of parents and the community, not body of legislators governing millions of people. Since this bill is an expansion of government, it earns the score of LESS LIBERTY.

On a separate note: As long as hundreds of children are concentrated together on a daily basis, segregated by age, and all taught the same things at the same speed, their lives will be filled with problems including bullying.